ID#: 1398Aug 26-27 :
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Watch McGregor vs Mayweather Fight

Floyd Mayweather will host his open workout early this evening ahead of his Aug. 26 fight with Conor McGregor.

As August 26th approaches the hype train for Mayweather-McGregor continues to plow forward. Early this evening, with a scheduled start time of 5:00pm ET, Showtime Sporst will live stream Floyd Mayweather’s open media workout ahead of his scheduled fight with Conor McGregor. You can catch the stream right here on BLH.

We’ve already seen a couple of glimpses of Floyd recently, and by all accounts he looks to be in tremendous shape, and today we’ll get a closer look at Floyd’s preparation for this fight.

Realistically, I don’t expect this to be much different than any of Floyd’s other media workouts, his fight preparations are always pretty consistent. But Floyd did surprise us us last time out by hosting a live open sparring session instead of a typical media workout for the Berto fight. So I suppose anything is possible!

Conor McGregor will host his live media workout tomorrow evening, and we’ll have live coverage of that for you as well.

Two weeks ahead of showtime, Showtime today confirmed the entire Mayweather-McGregor pay-per-view lineup via press release. The card will feature two title fights and open with a prospect vs. veteran battle at cruiserweight.

In the co-feature, Gervonta Davis (18-0, 17 KO makes the second defense of his IBF super featherweight title against Francisco Fonseca (19-0-1, 13 KO), not the expected Roman Martinez. Fonseca was originally ordered to fight Tevin Farmer in an eliminator, but Farmer’s hand injury has rendered that moot.

One of the fights long rumored for the Mayweather-McGregor pay-per-view undercard on August 26 is now very close, as promoter Eddie Hearn says that terms have been agreed to for a fight between WBA light heavyweight titleholder Nathan Cleverly and Badou Jack

The fight would be a solid addition to the show, with Jack (21-1-2, 12 KO) a former super middleweight titleholder moving up in weight, and Cleverly (30-3, 16 KO) a two-time titleholder at 175, though he is just 4-3 in his last seven fights, and has been exposed against the upper tier of the division in the past, including losses to Sergey Kovalev and Andrzej Fonfara (his third loss came at cruiserweight to Tony Bellew, whom he’d beaten at 175).

Right now, the Mayweather-McGregor card is shaping up to be a big one, which is obvious just from the main event and the interest in that, but the undercard isn’t certainly better than some we’ve seen, even for cards where the main event was far less likely to sell well. Gervonta Davis will defend his 130-pound title against Rocky Martinez on the pay-per-view, and a FOX-broadcast prelim show will see Shawn Porter take on Thomas Dulorme.